Download Windows 8.1 update 1 with a simple registry tweak

If you can't wait any lonfer, here's a fun tip. If you are willing to make a few tweaks to your registry, you can get Windows 8.1 update 1 right now. By adding a value to your registry, this will give you access to download and will get you the bits right now, without accessing any third-party.

Neowin reports that several users mentioned that the method is working and have successfully downloaded the update. The current thought is that by tweaking the registry, it mimics your machine to be that of a user who is dogfooding the update and then sends the bits to your machine.

In regedit, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\” and create a new key called “SHWindowsPoolS14?, now reboot your PC and check for new updates. You should see “Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB2919442) – (S14 Prerequisite v01.0008)“, this is the first in a series of updates that will update your PC to Windows 8.1.1 (or whatever it’s called).

As with any leak or workaround like this, proceed with caution as you can bork your Windows install.

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Before people comment. Yes, these are the official download links, and for the official version. Also, they are listed in terms of install order. You should install KB2919442 first as that is the servicing stack update and restart.

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#4778842 Posted on: 03/08/2014 01:25 AM
It's been advised to reboot after every update, not sure if necessary but I did and was fine

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#4778857 Posted on: 03/08/2014 02:07 AM

Yeah I also have HIPS enabled.

Thanks.

I see these official links have over 700mb+, the link I used had only ~550mb..

btw, thatguy91 last 3 files are down

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#4778858 Posted on: 03/08/2014 02:08 AM

It's now been suggested it will be released sooner than 08 April.

Was reading a rumor earlier that MS might release it at the beginning of BUILD 2014....which is only a few days early.... April 2-4 is the BUILD conference.

@-TJ- Supposedly MS has pulled a couple of the updates to stop people from getting them early.

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#4778862 Posted on: 03/08/2014 02:19 AM
Thanks.

I see these official links have over 700mb+, the link I used had only ~550mb..

btw, thatguy91 last 3 files are down

These are the ones I installed yesterday

Was reading a rumor earlier that MS might release it at the beginning of BUILD 2014....which is only a few days early.... April 2-4 is the BUILD conference.

@-TJ- Supposedly MS has pulled a couple of the updates to stop people from getting them early.